This bike has been awesome for me over many miles of rough and rocky dirt roads. It replaced a pure cyclocross bike. It is certainly a better deal than the non gravel Domane sl5 with better disk brakes and the Schwalbe tires. The only part of the bike that is subpar are the wheels which are the bottom of the line bontrager tubeless ready. I went ahead and upgraded the wheels to the top shelf bontrager paradigm tlr elite disk wheels during my local superstore 20% off sale. The resulting upgrade is a better bike than the step up Domane sl6 for less money.